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Half-Life As A 2D Side-Scroller?

Posted by simoniker on from the head-crab-flash-shock dept.

Allen Varney writes "Why wait for Half-Life 2 when you can wait instead for Half-Life 2D? 'Codename: Gordon' is a free, fan-produced jump'n'run side-scroller adapted from the original Half-Life. It'll be done in a month, but for now there's screenshots and a two-minute gameplay video."

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  1. Re:The truth of the Slashdot effect. by simoniker · · Score: 5, Informative

    In this case, if the site went down, it was probably a combined Penny Arcade (who featured the project this morning) and Slashdot Games effect, since this isn't actually a mainpage post. From my very un-scientific pokings, I've noticed that a Slashdot Games-only post can generate enough traffic to kill some smaller sites, but on its own, relatively rarely smashes better-hosted webpages.

  2. Re:mmm, siiidescrollers... by saladpuncher · · Score: 3, Informative

    Abuse was released to the public domain when crack.com went bankrupt. You can download it and play the full version from underdogs and not even worry about stealing :)
    It works on 98/XP just fine. Of course if you hate Microsoft then the source code can also be dug up with a little googling allowing someone to make a linux version.